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ok, a bit early yet, yes, but training camp starts friday, so here goes nuttin.

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 17 July 2003 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)

beep beep!

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 17 July 2003 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Falcons over Phins in the Super Bowl

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 17 July 2003 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

also insert interest in ilx fantasy league gaging question herre

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 17 July 2003 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Somebody teach this uncoordinated gay man how to care about football. I mean, apart from the lycra and all.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 17 July 2003 22:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I cannot turn your face into a heart.

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 17 July 2003 22:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Somebody teach this unreconstructed English man how to care about football. I mean, apart from the violence and all.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 17 July 2003 22:10 (twenty-two years ago)

sigh I'm outta here

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 17 July 2003 22:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Poor Blount. I will drink beer with you during games but if it wasn't for the beer then I couldn't be arsed.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 17 July 2003 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)

college game

― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 17 July 2003 22:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm with ya Blount; you too Millar. Screw hoops and MLB for a while: I'm NFLing it up until, y'know, the playoffs start, or until the Blazers pick up someone like Todd McCullough or Suge Knight or something.

Actually, any team with Suge Knight as their power forward would go 82-0.

― Neudonym, Thursday, 17 July 2003 23:40 (twenty-two years ago)

jake plummer will be a complete bust, duane carswell will be arrested five more times. joey harrington to charles rogers best combo since manning and harrison?

― keith (keithmcl), Thursday, 17 July 2003 23:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I respect your interest in the whole gridiron thing but IT'S FUCKING JULY

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Thursday, 17 July 2003 23:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Somebody teach this uncoordinated gay man how to care about football. I mean, apart from the lycra and all.

http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/clowell.jpg

Hello! Big Thighs For The Gay Guys!

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 17 July 2003 23:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Also I live in Minnesota and hearing all these Norske Fargo accents talking about football is like living in that SNL "DA BEARSSS" sketch all bloody winter

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Thursday, 17 July 2003 23:47 (twenty-two years ago)

If I ever decide to give a rat's ass about a professional sport again, it's gonna be (American) football. But I'm not quite ready yet.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 17 July 2003 23:55 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, seriously, to answer Michael's question...

do you like any competitive pro sports? If so, which one? If not, why do you think not?

(haha, making Daddino a pigskin junkie is now MY QUEST!)

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 17 July 2003 23:58 (twenty-two years ago)

any sport is enjoyable when watched with friends and beer. I only like the art of basketball; the art of other sports I can't be bothered with.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 18 July 2003 00:03 (twenty-two years ago)

also: GO PACERS!

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 18 July 2003 00:04 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm excited cause we get a full season of chad pennington this year. remember -- TAD IS ROOTING FOR A JETS V. GIANTS SUPERBOWL, AND SO SHOULD YOU!

― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 18 July 2003 03:00 (twenty-two years ago)

and if you aren't, YOU A FASSYMAN GEEK INTO CHICHI SEX

― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 18 July 2003 03:00 (twenty-two years ago)

neither of those teams will make the playoffs : )

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 18 July 2003 03:00 (twenty-two years ago)

my son decided in December to become obsessed about the Packers (he's four, it's a preschool thing), so this year I get to sit home every Sunday afternoon and watch football with him and call it bonding. oh I love my life.

plus we got akili smith now so PLEASE GOD (and I say this as a Ducks fan) KEEP FAVRE HEALTHY

― Neudonym, Friday, 18 July 2003 03:21 (twenty-two years ago)

oh god - that's where akili ended up?

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 18 July 2003 03:22 (twenty-two years ago)

o yeah baby. you KNOW we got the juice now.

― Neudonym, Friday, 18 July 2003 03:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha, you American suckers, Canadian football has been on the go for weeks! muahha

Sadly though our mens team bowed out of the Gold Cup without even getting past Cuba for fuck sakes.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 18 July 2003 03:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Jets v. Giants Super Bowl would result in the complete destruction of NYC, you realize correct?

I have disowned the Buffalo Bills.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

cuz of that time Vincent Gallo took you to meet his parents?

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm already in two fantasy leagues!!!

Falcons next year. Still not enough talent around Vick.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Why have I suddenly become an item with Vincent Gallo? That's so high school! James, I'm surprised you didn't jump on the J. Plummer reference upthread.

Yancey, you spend all your time on fantasy sports.

Hey, did anyone pick up Jason Seawhore?

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Sehorn went to the Rams, I believe?

I hardly spend anytime on fantasy sports! I draft my teams and then I forget about them. It's just my way.

Bengals win 7 games this year.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Sewhore's a Ram now - I think they made him a safety maybe

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I have no idea who wins the Super Bowl. Oakland takes the AFC West again, Jets-Bills-Dolphins battle for AFC East title and the Steelers take the Central yet again. In the NFC it'll be the Skins, Vikings (!!!) and 49ers.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Yancey post your team! here's mine

QB - Mike Vick, Marc Bulger
RB - Marshall Faulk, Corey Dillon, Trung Canidate, Amos Zereoue
WR - Eric Moulds, Peerless Price, Jerry Porter, Josh Reed, Ashley Lelie
TE - Chad Lewis

K - Jason Elam

DEF - Miami, San Diego

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)

God, why would anyone pick up Seahorse? He's the absolute worst. All he does is stand on the sidelines and wink and look purdy. WTF kind of athlete is that? At least Derek Jeter actually can play his sport.

Actually, thinking of baseball now, it's exactly like the Benitez trade--wtf are the Yankees thinking? Benitez is the absolute worst relief pitcher out there, short of like maybe if I was a relief pitcher. Did the Mets offer them some magic beans or something as well? That's the only way that decision makes any sense. He's part of the reason why the Mets lost to the Yankees in the World Series! That and the Yankees being better!

(I really haven't disowned the Bills but I'm still hella pissed about the whole Flutie debacle...oh for the good days when I was 10 and it was the Jim Kelly show)

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)

last year I picked the Vikes to take the central and my dad harumphed and said 'they won't make the playoffs' and NEVER LET ME FORGET IT

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Ugh, James, have I told you my story about my dad and the '91 Super Bowl? :(

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:42 (twenty-two years ago)

The Vikes got hot at the end of the year and I think Culpepper might finally get back in form. Bennett might be out for the year though.

My draft ain't for a while. It's a keeper league, and I didn't even remember who I had last year! (I tuned out about week 7) But it looks like my best keeper prospects (I keep two doods) are Bledsoe and Green. Which is so-so.

I think the Rams picked up Seahorn so there can be a Rivarly of NFL Wives between Angie Harmon and Kurt Warner's DykeWife.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Ally = Vincent Gallo shockah!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

This is urgent & key:

http://espn.go.com/page2/s/simmons/030710.html

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

tell me that's not Trent Green

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

No no no. Ahman Green.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

The list of players my commissioner gave me:

D. Bledsoe
J. Plummer
A. Green
C. Dillon
Antwain Smith
Keyshawn Johnson
Hines Ward

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd be a little worried about Bledsoe - that offense faded hard last year (ha - sez the man who drafted two Bills receivers)

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Price is a Falcon now, dude!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:47 (twenty-two years ago)

JOSH REED!

I'd probably take Green and Dillon out of that group

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Seriously, wtf is up with the Vincent Gallo thing?

Anyway, ok, '91 Super Bowl, when that season started my dad started prancing around like fucking Criswell announcing that the Bills and the Giants would face each other and the Giants would win and--here is the keyest part--they'd win by 1 point. He actually said this, not making it up. So of course everyone's like, ok, whatever, shut up about that already, we don't care about your novel ideas. Me, being a 10 year old Bills fan, told him he was full of crap (not quite like that) and was going all bitchcakes for the Bills.

Of course, they end up playing each other. And of course, Scott Norwood is the fucking suxor who ruined my entire childhood, yadda yadda yadda.

It is now twelve years later and my dad still reminds me, every time I trump him in football knowledge which is like all the time these days cos he's gone senile, that I was wrong and he was scarily right. Still! WTF?

That part in that article about one of the Cowboys being assaulted or shot cracked me up, btw. This makes me a bad person.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha! I'm so out of it roster-wise right now. Yeah, I was trying to decide between Dillon and Bledsoe. And strangely, I'm a Bengals fan.

Bills are MUCH MUCH MUCH better now with Takeo Spikes. Dude's seriously underrated.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

HAHAHA!

Late August:

...Arizona is mathematically eliminated from the playoffs..

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

CFL is way cooler than NFL...our balls are bigger.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Canadians are so cute.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah Horace but you guys use rouge in football, wtf?

― Neudonym, Friday, 18 July 2003 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Bengals should be alot better this season *cue Yazz's "The Only Way is Up"*

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Well it'd be hard to be worse.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Carson Palmer is the new Kevin Maas.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Funny enough, I just got an email from my fantasy commish yesterday about this year's league. Man, I can't even think about football yet even though it's my favorite sport. I'm still full of giddiness over the all-star game. I did enjoy the Terrell Owens interview on Best Damn Sports Show last night though. Give me until training camp starts to make predictions.

Oh, ok, New Orleans over Miami in the SB.

I'd definitely be up for some ILx fantasy action.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

This year's all about the college ranks though: Marcus Vick and Kevin Jones break out! Go Hokies!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 18 July 2003 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Aren't we all, Mr. Diamond?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 July 2003 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)

This is proof that Ned reads every thread.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 18 July 2003 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

haha!

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 18 July 2003 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

one thing I've been meaning to ask but to lazy to confirm - are the Hokies and the Canes playing ACC schedules this year?

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 18 July 2003 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

*bows*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 July 2003 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I think Ned actually has three monitors at work, and a script running on his computer that continually refreshes New Answers and pipes any changed content to the monitors. So he just has to sit back and let his eyes dart from screen to screen, adding comments as he sees fit.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 18 July 2003 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

What, you don't?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 July 2003 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

ACC schedules won't start until 2005.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 18 July 2003 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

College game is not my scene.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 18 July 2003 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

not since that one Rose Bowl right?

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 18 July 2003 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

That's so High School Ally.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 18 July 2003 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Auburn in a BCS bowl or Tuberville gets fired

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 18 July 2003 19:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Now that I'm unemployed I have but one goal: Finish a season with VT on NCAA 2004 (provided I can get the bread to buy it).

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 18 July 2003 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

haha - I always play "Navy vs. the Ivy League": it's the story of my life (cept this time I win!)

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 18 July 2003 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

James, :(

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 18 July 2003 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

we are not enemies :(

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 18 July 2003 19:12 (twenty-two years ago)

let NY burn, i'm a jersey guy anyway -- i wanna see a jets v. giants super bowl!

― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 18 July 2003 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)

It'll never happen. The Giants are such garbage. Stupid Philly had to make us watch that crap team play one more game.

I guess it was a pretty good game though.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 18 July 2003 19:23 (twenty-two years ago)

actually i can live w/t seeing the giants in the bowl. i'm really a jets fan (though i like the giants, too). i just want a jets-giants super bowl so that the jets can kick giant ass and i can get even for some 20+ years of taunting. (i guess you gotta be from NJ or NY to understand jets fans!)

― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 18 July 2003 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

TAD THE STADIUM IS IN...oh wait, they don't do Super Bowls that way. Never mind.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 18 July 2003 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

god

http://ca.yimg.com/i/ca/cbc/20030104/i/2014142478.jpg

― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 18 July 2003 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

DOH! Totally forgot the Eagles. Philly takes the NFC East.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 18 July 2003 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm still willing to indoctrinate Daddino into football fandom, btw.

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 18 July 2003 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Saucy.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 July 2003 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm a Raiders fan and may never recover from that Super Bowl. God damn it.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Friday, 18 July 2003 22:14 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah it was beautiful

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 18 July 2003 23:08 (twenty-two years ago)

When I was a kid, I hated sports, hated hated hated sports, mainly because I saw it as part of this opressor macho bully boy trip thing I wanted no part of. After I hit puberty my antipathy towards athletics started to seem a little silly to me, and I started to follow sports -- mainly baseball, especially the Mets, from about 1985 to 1987 -- with a decent amount of devotion. That devotion kind of ebbed away and right now I don't really follow any sports team at all now because it takes a commitment of time and mental wherewithal I'm not sure I can make.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 19 July 2003 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Nah, I gave up on having a lot of committment and time and mental attachment to any sports teams--you can still enjoy the game. We should go to one game, I can try to get tix again off my boss.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 21 July 2003 01:08 (twenty-two years ago)

up till 1997, being a jets fan was the best way to root for a sports team w/t putting in lots of commitment and time. on account of the fact that the jets usually sucked and ergo not worth watching most of the time. then parcells came in (along with curtis martin, then keyshawn), then herman edwards & chad pennington and then the jets started winning more often than not.

till then, the only jets games i watched religiously were the jets-dolphins games (the mark of a real jets fan. that, and an old NY Sack Exchange picture.)

― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 21 July 2003 03:36 (twenty-two years ago)

why did we let this thread die? football season's a month away! GO JETS

― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 27 July 2003 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)

First exhibition game is this Saturday!!!

I just got my Lions season tickets in the mail a few days ago, Charles Rogers is signed up, I am psyched!

Where the heck has Blount been lately?

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Sunday, 27 July 2003 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

will the lions actually win a game this year?

― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 27 July 2003 19:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I dunno what the over-under is on victories, but ... take the over. trust me.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Sunday, 27 July 2003 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

having trouble finding any sites with the futures. One place puts it at 6, which is about what I would project. So maybe it's not such a good bet after all.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Sunday, 27 July 2003 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm watching football right now!!

ok, so it's a pre-season game and it doesn't count and it actually took place at like 5 am this morning in Tokyo, but..

I'm watching football right now!!

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 2 August 2003 23:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh heh heh heh.

I'm not really into football, but I keep on having it shoved into my face now that it's training camp time and the Dallas Cowboys (*pauses for obligatory laughfest*) are doing training camp here for the second year in a row.

Wake me up when it's basketball season.

― Just Deanna (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 2 August 2003 23:56 (twenty-two years ago)

So, Jeremy Shockey called Bill Parcells a "homo" in a New York Daily News interview.... and it's only the preseason!!

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 8 August 2003 12:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow. Jeremy Shockey should come post on ILX.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 8 August 2003 12:24 (twenty-two years ago)

For reals!

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 8 August 2003 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha I wonder what Parcells response shall be. I think it'll be along the lines of "You're the homo BEEEEYOTCH!!!!!" and then he'll eat everything in sight to prove his manliness.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 8 August 2003 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

You think that's bad? The Detroit Lions training camp is right next to my office, those dudes are annoying.

― Larcole (Nicole), Friday, 8 August 2003 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Scream "Think fast Malkovitch!" at them and throw things.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 8 August 2003 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

No way! That's kind of cool, Nicole. Can you get me a Joey Harrington autograph?

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 8 August 2003 12:40 (twenty-two years ago)

If I could have any training camp next to my work, it'd be the Yankees and I'd be all like, yo Jeter, wtf. Why won't you go out with me?

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 8 August 2003 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

He'd prolly be like, "Cuz I haven't met you yet baby... what are you doing later? Do you like Cristal?"

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 8 August 2003 12:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Aaron, I probably could if I hung around outside the entrance, but I have no idea who any of them are. I just know a lot of them are crummy drivers.

― Larcole (Nicole), Friday, 8 August 2003 12:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Jeter would probably say "I won't go out with you Ally, because I like men."

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 8 August 2003 12:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Nicole, yeah, you'd probably come back with a Mike McMahon autograph instead!

So what's the most excessive SUV you've seen? I'm guessing they all have Hummers?

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 8 August 2003 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Aaron, you're almost right -- I would say it is a 50/50 split between h2 Hummers and Cadillac Escalades. Though I did see a Porsche Cayenne (the new Porsche SUV) the other day.

― Larcole (Nicole), Friday, 8 August 2003 12:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I like Aaron's answer better than Chris's.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 8 August 2003 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

But Aarons answer is not true.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 8 August 2003 12:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Fair enough.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 8 August 2003 12:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Cayenne?!?! Is Pepper Johnson playing for the Lions?

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 8 August 2003 12:59 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 8 August 2003 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Cadillac Escalades...Porsche Cayenne

This is where ignorance about cars really IS bliss. These names can't be serious, but yet you say them with confidence (and regret) that they are.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 8 August 2003 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Ned... if you were to watch MTV for 5 minutes I think chances are you'd see an Escalade.

http://www.edmunds.com/edweb/cook/escalade/media/02.cadillac.escalade.f3-4.jpg
Escalade

http://www.edmunds.com/media/2002/geneva/porsche.cayenne.f34.500.jpg
Cayenne

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 8 August 2003 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the "homo" line is probably bullshit. It really seems like reporters are going out of their way to provoke Shockey now, which is damn near as easy as provoking Mike Tyson. That said, I hate that fucking faggot.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 8 August 2003 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

They both look positively dull.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 8 August 2003 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Can I mention that watching the Mike Vick interview on Sportscenter yesterday nearly got me hard? Or Is that too much info?

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 8 August 2003 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

This is where ignorance about cars really IS bliss. These names can't be serious, but yet you say them with confidence (and regret) that they are.

Ned, how much rap have you listened to? Just off the top of my head I could probably come up w/three songs that namecheck the Escalade.

― Larcole (Nicole), Friday, 8 August 2003 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

That is way too much info, Yanc3ypants.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 8 August 2003 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Ned, how much rap have you listened to? Just off the top of my head I could probably come up w/three songs that namecheck the Escalade.

Let's see, who on this board has noted more than once that lyrics are the last thing listened for in a song in any genre, I wonder...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 8 August 2003 14:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, but when you get a song on and all it is is Ludicris yelling about how he just bought another Escalade, you'd think you'd notice that. I mean I'm sure you've noticed that Ludacris, just for instance, also has got lots of fine bitchuz and honeys, and possibly also some Courvouisier.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 8 August 2003 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I've noticed he's awfully excited about things, and sometimes that is enough.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 8 August 2003 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Isn't there a Slowdive song about Escalades?

The New York Daily News reporter sez he has it on tape. I find the whole thing pretty funny.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 8 August 2003 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Isn't there a Slowdive song about Escalades?

Slowdive have lyrics?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 8 August 2003 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

About Escalades? Yes.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 8 August 2003 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

"Escalade's Teardrop," found on the B-side of "Wistful Wash," originally released in 1990.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 8 August 2003 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd be excited if I was Ludacris too. Not so much if I were Slowdive.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 8 August 2003 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Excitement was never the point with Slowdive, it was narcotics via effects pedals.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 8 August 2003 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

"Homo"

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 8 August 2003 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Me and YOU sir, Homo sapiens too! There, I remember that lyric.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 8 August 2003 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow you have an amazing capacity to remember terrible lyrics, nice!

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 8 August 2003 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Yay! :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 8 August 2003 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

sooooo, who else read Ralph Wiley's column today?

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

haha - Editor's Note: Gentle pilgrim readers can write in to R-Dub/Road Dog and point out the utter lunacy and absurdity of his NFL thoughts and picks at [email protected])

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Things that have not changed for me since last season
indifference for Rice as a Raider
hate of Shockey
Vick is overrated
Garcia is meh
TO is god

Things that have changed
I hate the 9ers. Thank you Tad.

― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

indifference for Rice as a Raider

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Vick is underrated

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Mr. D there's no RICE in TEAM.

I'm a bad homer. It's amazing that I root for Mueller at all.

― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

(1) ralph nader gets hit in the face with a pie. (2) my howard dean thread gets 100+ hits, many enthusiastic for someone i want to see replace Bush. (3) i get a phone call for an interview with one of my dream employers! (4) leee becomes a ninah hatah!!

it has been a really good day indeed :-)

― Tad (llamasfur), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Not so fast Jackson. I'm still rooting for them.

― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 22:45 (twenty-two years ago)

you think they can beat the Seahawks out for second?

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 22:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Things that will never change
9ers > 'Hawks

― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 22:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Dude, what's up w/the Seahawks' ugly ass uniforms? Or is this old news & just that I haven't watched them play for over a decade?

I just read Wiley. "Jet fans will have a great year -- long as they don't mind rooting for the Washington Redskins." HAHAHA! September 4th, Monday night, I'm ready for some football..

http://images.chron.com/content/chronicle/special/02/fb/images/spurrier.jpg

― daria g (daria g), Thursday, 14 August 2003 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I think Martin Sheen is their coach now. I don't know, Snyder figured there must be some way to pour more $$$ into the team.

― daria g (daria g), Thursday, 14 August 2003 00:23 (twenty-two years ago)

wiley's worse than hunter thompson these days.

vick IS overrated. at vt he was always an underacheiver. five amazing plays a game, the rest inconsistent. that's what his nfl career has been so far. i'm just ready for him to overcome that hump. (he's the nfl's yao ming)

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 14 August 2003 01:11 (twenty-two years ago)

His "career" = 1 year!

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 14 August 2003 01:15 (twenty-two years ago)

very true. i just have very high expectations for him. i've seen every game his played post-high school! i'm in love with the man!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 14 August 2003 01:52 (twenty-two years ago)

If you love him so much why don't you marry him.

― Leee (Leee), Thursday, 14 August 2003 02:11 (twenty-two years ago)

This thread is so grade school.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 14 August 2003 02:48 (twenty-two years ago)

SHUT UP COOTIE GIRL.

― Leee (Leee), Thursday, 14 August 2003 03:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm sad I didn't click on it before. Here I thought it would be about football. . .

― Texas Sam (thatgirl), Thursday, 14 August 2003 03:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Nothing's about anything and everything's about something different. It's ILE!

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 14 August 2003 03:31 (twenty-two years ago)

i bought Madden 2004 last night. Thats about as much football as I do.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 14 August 2003 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

poor Blount. I'm really, really sorry man...

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Sunday, 17 August 2003 01:10 (twenty-two years ago)

suffice it to say, I'm drunk

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Sunday, 17 August 2003 04:32 (twenty-two years ago)

just had my fantasy draft. my team:

kerry collins
jon kitna
kyle boller
tim couch
ahman green
corey dillon
moe williams
jerome bettis
stacey mack
marcel shipp
tory holt
koren robinson
hines ward
quincy morgan
reggie wayne
alge crumpler
olindo mare
bills d
giants d

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 29 August 2003 03:06 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm excited cause we get a full season of chad pennington this year.

-- Tad (llamasfu...), July 18th, 2003 12:00 AM. (llamasfur) - this thread's like the si curse squared

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 29 August 2003 03:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Have my draft Monday night. Still haven't really studied a lick, but I'll be a'ight. My beloved Lions finish the pre-season at 2-2.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 29 August 2003 03:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Perhaps the Jets could get Chester Bennington to play quarterback instead.

― daria g (daria g), Friday, 29 August 2003 05:29 (twenty-two years ago)

there goes the season ... does vinny have another quality year left in him?

― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 29 August 2003 05:51 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

So, Tad...

Who should I root for now?

― Sir Leee (Leee), Monday, 29 September 2003 19:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Look at my Vikes prediction! Blount too!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 29 September 2003 20:02 (twenty-two years ago)

My offer to bandwagon to new It-team just another example of 49er awfulness?

― Sir Leee (Leee), Monday, 29 September 2003 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

why do the Bears suck so much? :(

they have essentially the same team they did two years ago when they went like 12-4...

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 29 September 2003 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)

cuz that year the a-train was actually good, and the rest was luck

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 29 September 2003 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, our high-profile skill-position draft picks have all been busts. Rashaan Salaam, Curtis Enis, Cade McNown, David Terrell, and the jury's still out on A-Train... Owell.

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 29 September 2003 20:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a salaam bears jersey!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 29 September 2003 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

did it fall apart the first time you wore it?

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 29 September 2003 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

ALONZO SPELLMAN
REX GROSSMAN

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 29 September 2003 21:41 (twenty-two years ago)

don't forget they traded a first rounder for Rick Mirer also

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 29 September 2003 21:46 (twenty-two years ago)

it's been downhill since Jimmy Mac and VT alum Will Furrer!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 29 September 2003 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Phil, unfortunately this team is nowhere near the same as that 13-3 team. They lost a ton of playmakers on defense - Tony Parrish, Roosevelt Colvin, Walt Harris, and Ted Washington being the biggest (literally with Washington - haha). On offense they've lost their best receiver, Marcus Robinson, and pro-bowl offensive lineman, Big Cat Williams. They swapped Jim Miller for Kordell Stewart - meh, that's a wash I guess. Anyway, yeah, big big changes in just a couple of years. Welcome to today's NFL.

I'm actually just about to go take a stroll by the new Soldier Field - I live about a ten minute walk away from it - and take in some of the pre-game atmosphere. The whole neighborhood is filled with the smell of lighter fluid right now....

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 29 September 2003 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, I have to admit I haven't been following football as much since the 2001-2002 season, since I was in Asia for the 02-03 season. I had no idea that Washington and Williams were gone - where did they go? Good riddance to Walt Harris though - another first-round bust. Can we get Neal Anderson to come out of retirement?

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 29 September 2003 22:46 (twenty-two years ago)

washington's a patsy now

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 29 September 2003 22:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Is Kurt Warner the new Doug Christie?

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=1626574

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 29 September 2003 23:04 (twenty-two years ago)

this ain't the first time she's done that

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 29 September 2003 23:17 (twenty-two years ago)

RICK MIRER??? WTF???

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 29 September 2003 23:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Did you go on a date with him too?!?!?!

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)

oh my god, we [the bears] suck

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)

that play was positively Detroit Lion-like.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 00:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Contrary to popular belief, I have not gone on a date with every shit NFL qb ever.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

PARIS HILTON!!! LOOK! Paris Hilton is on Monday Night Football!

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 00:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn, she's hot. I've never seen her before.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 00:55 (twenty-two years ago)

17-0!!!!!!!!!!!

(only just put on game, sorry)

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 00:58 (twenty-two years ago)

HA! 17-3 now, bitches.

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 01:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah I'm sure Green Bay just pissed their pants.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 01:15 (twenty-two years ago)

"why do the Bears suck so much?"

Because Mike McCaskey is a cheap bastard and they have NEVER had an offensive coordinator or head coach that has an original idea on how to move the ball.

I grew up watching the Bears and Bengals every week until the Colts moved to Indy, then it was the Bears and Colts. Being a fan that watched these three teams has provided great insight into existential thought.

At least the Colts are generally fun to watch since Manning joined the club. They looked this good a couple of years ago and then everybody got hurt and they turned to major suck, I so hope it doesn't happen again.

― earlnash, Tuesday, 30 September 2003 01:22 (twenty-two years ago)

c'mon - "give the ball to the fridge" is an original idea on how to move the ball

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 01:23 (twenty-two years ago)

That is just a subset of the plan, "give the ball to Walter", which through his great talent worked pretty well.

― earlnash, Tuesday, 30 September 2003 01:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I blame John Shoop.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 30 September 2003 04:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Kurt Warner's wife kinda looks like a transvestite hooker

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 04:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I have no idea who the heck Nick Bakay is, but that betting segment he and his wife do on SportsCenter is just freakin' hilarious!!

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, 30 September 2003 05:23 (twenty-two years ago)

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